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Thursday, December 04, 2014

Hong Kong Pop 60s: Irene Ryder (黎愛蓮) Part 2

The Hong Kong protests are still on. Will it ever end? We turn the clock a bit and remember the island's pop music hey-day.

Best Female Vocalist:

Her song Cry Me a River won her the honour of The Best Female
Vocalist and with the release of her first and second album, Irene
and Solitaire, she again gained the same honour. The winnings went on for five
years.

Movies:Irene had also appeared in two movies, Tiger vs. Dragon (1972) and Rage of the Wind (1973)
both directed by well established director Wu Si Yuen. However her
career came to a stand still when she had a near fatal accident
in 1979.

2 Decades:There
was a lapse of nearly two decades when Irene was not much in the
limelight but in 1997 and by popular demand after recording four
duets with her good friend Joe Junior, Irene returned to the recording
studio to do her
own album, The Legend.

When
she regained her self-confidence she decided to perform live again and
although it had been quite an absence she managed five successful
concerts in Hong Kong with him.
﻿﻿﻿﻿

Repertoire:For her repertoire, Ms Ryder usually performed golden oldies. It was a highlight of her shows. The songs would include Frankie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, To Sir with Love, The End of the
World, Kiss Me Honey Honey, Stupid Cupid, Seven Lonely Days, Kowloon Hong Kong and other hits.﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿During
her peak, Irene had recorded many covers of top songs from the 1960s
and 1970s. There are also compilations of her songs released in the
1990s and 2003.﻿﻿﻿﻿

6 comments:

The good connection that Singapore pop bands has with Hong Kong bands stretched beyond the imagination; these boys and girls have been playing together since the 1960s with Singapore guitar groups going over to HK to play at their clubs and HK bands coming over for stints at our hotels and night venues.

The Silver Strings were in Hong Kong for a bit and so were the Quests. Other bands followed.

The practice has been similar with bands from Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan, The Philippines and other SEA countries.

In a way then, the cross cultural exchange using music from all these countries created a lasting bond that has survived till today.

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